Contemporary

Symmetria Pario – Creation / Murray McLachlan

Symmetria Pario: Creation explores the “beginnings of things,” the origin of the universe as expressed in music, and various creation stories from different cultures around the world.

Composers Cecilia Damstrom, Harrison Birtwistle and Missy Mazzoli join this album celebrating music for violin and piano. (Yarlung)

1CD# YAR84165 $19.99

Stevens: Chasing Shadows / Rosemary Attree; Amy Yule

An important strand in Stevens’ compositional output since 2007 has been writing music for relatively neglected instruments such as the tuba, the piccolo and the bassoon, and this strand was strengthened in the autumn of 2015 when he wrote a collection of six pieces for double bass and piano, to which Chasing Shadows and Obsession belong. (Divine Art)

1CD# DDA25236 $17.99

Garland: The Basketweave Elegies

Peter Garland’s The Basketweave Elegies is an enchanting nine-movement work for solo vibraphone, performed by celebrated percussionist William Winant. Garland writes: “I want to write music that is well-made, sturdy, useful, and beautiful—like a basket.” Peter Garland is a composer, world traveler, musicologist, and writer whose music is always informed by his welltraveled ear and strong sense of personal vision. (Cold Blue Music)

1CD# CB0066 $16.99

Sherr: Fugitive Footsteps

Laurence Sherr delves deep into the spirit of resilience with Fugitive Footsteps. Not shying away from musically pointing to suffering and despair, Sherr paints a vivid picture of persecution, trauma, and survivor’s guilt but also of silent and active opposition, hope, renewal, and the eventual overcoming of adversity.

(Navona)

1CD# NV6492 $14.99

Beaudoin: Digital Memory and the Archive

Composer Richard Beaudoin continues his deep investigation into the realm of microtiming with Digital Memory and the Archive. Featuring music for solo and two celli by Neil Heyde and longtime Arditti Quartet cellist Rohan de Saram, builds a rich approach to composition which embeds timings from iconic performances into the fabric of his music. (New Focus)

1CD# FCR358 $16.99

Aho: Violin Concerto No. 2 – Cello Concerto No. 2

The youngest winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2015, cellist Jonathan Roozeman takes on this work in five movements played without interruption and in the last section delivers a cadenza as unusual as it is clever. The Kymi Sinfonietta is conducted here by Olari Elts, a champion of contemporary Baltic composers. (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2466 $19.99

Sierra: Piano Works

A student of Ligeti, Roberto Sierra is the most prominent Latin American composer on the international scene. He writes: “Ligeti’s sonatas, as I began to study them, opened me up to a world full of completely fresh sonorities, structures and approaches.” (IBS Classical)

1CD# IBS-122022 $15.99

Post: Concertino á Cinque & Piano Quintet

This new release presents two major works by the American composer, David Post, his Concertino á Cinque for clarinet and string quartet, and his Piano Quintet for piano and string quartet, both works heard in virtuosic performances by the Martinu Quartet, with clarinetist Ludmila Peterková and pianist Jan Dušek. MusicWeb described Post’s music as “immediately and obviously excellent.” (Bridge)

1CD# BCD9576 $16.99

Byron: Halcyon Days

Michael Byron’s “Halcyon Days” is music for marimbas, xylophones, vibraphones, glockenspiels, tubular bells, maracas, and piano. Most of these pieces are from a previously under-documented period of Byron’s work—the mid-seventies, when he composed unique, remarkable minimalist-styled works.

(Cold Blue Music)

1CD# CB0065 $16.99

Breathing, Remembering, Dissolving / Kukuruz Quartet

Breathing, Remembering, Dissolving is a collaborative record bringing together a collection of contemporary experimental musical perspectives that all share a common interest: challenging the idea of what the human is in a musical performance. The project collects six works by composers of various backgrounds coming from the San Francisco Bay Area, United States, Latin America, and Europe. (Innova)

1CD# INN077 $14.99